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title: ‘Farewell,’ cried the otter as he jumped into the water, ‘and if dan… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Farewell,’ cried the otter as he jumped into the water, ‘and if danger presses, call to me and I will help you.’ Who acts: otter, danger, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93

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‘Farewell,’ cried the otter as he jumped into the water, ‘and if danger presses, call to me and I will help you.’

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**Who acts:** otter, danger, I · **What happens:** cry, jump, press, call, help · **To what, where:** otter, water, me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (otter, danger, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:9:93
# text = ‘Farewell,’ cried the otter as he jumped into the water, ‘and if danger presses, call to me and I will help you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the otter |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent otter=Topic |
| 2 | **jump** | past | otter |  |  |  |  | into the water *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result |
| 3 | **press** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | danger |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 5 | **help** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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